2004-12-01 - Canard PC: For Gaming, the Shuttle XPCs SN95G5 and SB81P
 The French computer magazine "Canard PC" put two Shuttle XPCs, SN95G5 and SB81P, to the test and enthusiatically reports:...
"The SN95G5 is your key to the high-end area. Built for extreme gamers, it comes with a latest generation mainboard for Athlon 64 with socket 939, nForce 3 chipset, Gigabit ethernet controller, two S-ATA hard disks, one AGP-port (8x), 5.1 sound and all connectors you need for joysticks or steering wheels. With a machine like that, don't worry to play Half-Life 2 with up to 80 images per second."
"The SB81P is its brother for Intel CPUs and is not sparing with performance either: PCI Express, i915G Chipset, Socket 775 for Pentium 4, two DDR-slots (not DDR2), Intel HD Audio Chip for 7.1 Dolby Sound in real time, Card
Reader, four S-ATA RAID connectors and, of course, a PCI-Express 16x slot to get the maximum out of the latest graphics cards. Performance and design are really convincing. A reasonable investment, if you plan to use your Shuttle barebone for more than two years." |